Re: lilo - booting from a device

1998-10-17 Thread G. Crimp
Thanks ! This even worked for a bootable partition on hdd =:¬) (except that my bios was not then able to load from hdd |:¬( ). On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:16:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: > > I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative > approach. > > Mount

RE: lilo - booting from a device

1998-10-13 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative approach. Mount the boot partition of the new distribution: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below) to lilo.conf: image=/mnt/vmlinuz label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 Then lil

Re: Lilo booting

1997-03-31 Thread Carl Privitt
> Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer > that asks me which OS (win95/linux) i would like to go to ? Yes. You use 2 options in your lilo.conf file to make this happen: "message" and "timeout". The message option tells LILO to automatically display a file's

Re: Lilo booting

1997-03-30 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
I've found that you have to mark the WIN95 partition as the "bootable" partition in the partition table or win95 has a hissy-fit. However, this DOES NOT affect the boot-ability of your linux partition. You can make both linux and win95 bootable on power-up by editing your lilo.conf file in your

Re: Lilo booting

1997-03-30 Thread Paul Wade
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote: > > I finally got my CD ROM working and my packages installed but i still have > a question. > > Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer > that asks me which OS > (win95/linux) i would like to go to ? > > I have tried ma